US Defense Secretary James Mattis has acknowledged that the United States is “not winning” in the war in Afghanistan.
Facing tough questions from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, the Pentagon chief admitted Tuesday that the US forces were not performing well in Afghanistan.
“We are not winning in Afghanistan right now,” said Mattis. “We will correct this as soon as possible.”
He made the comments in response to McCain’s criticism about lack of an Afghanistan strategy after six months into the administration of US President Donald Trump.
“We want a strategy, and I don’t think that’s a hell of a lot to ask,” the Arizona Republican senator told Mattis. “We’re now six months into this administration. We still haven’t got a strategy for Afghanistan. It makes it hard for us to support you when we don’t have a strategy. We know what the strategy was for the last eight years: Don’t lose.”
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